P S Bryant :: Three Poems ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in Florence, SC, right next to where the United States Air Force dropped a dud atomic bomb due to negligence. I saw the crater when I was 6. It was hauntingly large. The neighborhood...
Jeremiah Stricklin :: Pretty Boy ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: My mom used to tell me that’s why my eyes were brown. That’s my family’s version of a compliment. To be full of crap means you tell good stories. To tell good stories means you’re worth keeping...
Elizabeth Wadsworth Ellis :: Blank Tile with Tree ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I reside south of Canada. I have visited friends in Bluffton, South Carolina. A woman there told me, “You Yanks burned down everything!” We ventured into Savannah, Georgia during my visit. Blank Tile with Tree I drew...
Jim R. Rogers :: Imprint ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: “Here lately, it appears that nobody cares much about anything. Leastwise it’s the way I see it.When was the last time you heard a youngan say thank you, or please, or here let me do that foryou?...
Carl Harris :: Three Poems ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement:I am a queer black southern writer who focuses on the liminal spaces of identities that are often classed as other. I was born and raised in Union, South Carolina. This region is often noted as the foothills...
Carol Flythe :: Them ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born and raised in Texas and have a really awesome Texas drawl. My husband grew up in Georgia and we frequently visit his family there. We want to move to Alabama. Also, sweet tea is...
Brent Cronin :: Anyone but Annie ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I currently live in West Virginia, which is in that grey area between the Mid-Atlantic and the South, so I believe I qualify to submit to this journal. Anyone but Annie Chester’s suit was too tight, especially...
Richard Cutler :: The Squirrels Eat My Roof in January ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: The Pamlico River divides Beaufort County in North Carolina into north and south portions. I was created, birthed, and reared and made into who I am today on a black dirt farm on the north side of...
George Uriah :: Katrina, Darling ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I moved from Nairobi to Nashville right before I started high school and I vowed to leave the South the moment I graduated. I reluctantly stayed in town for college and then went as far away as...
James M. Maskell :: Henry ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I’ve spent my life in an area known as the south shore, which is just south of Boston. And despite just how northern that may seem to the rest of the country, believe me when I say...
Terry Ann Thaxton :: The Doll in the Mirror ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement Fifth generation Floridian. So far south, I ain’t got a twang. But my great-great grandparents (Joseph B. Keen/e, 1837-1898 and Mary P. Bronson, 1840-1921) are buried in the Shingle Creek Cemetery south of Orlando, Florida, tucked behind...
Hope Coulter :: Spot He ::
I was born in New Orleans—long story, but as a Southern Legitimacy Statement it could stop right there. On the other hand, Southerners rarely stop talking when they should, so I’ll go on to say that my natal residency in...
Jack J. B. Hutchens :: Rodeo | How to Rope a Cow | The Last Friday Night ::
As far as a Southern Legitimacy Statement, I’m not sure how to begin. I’m a red-legged Jayhawker abolitionist Kansan. As a descendent (in Spirit) of John Brown, I never thought of myself as Northern or Southern, but in the In-Between....
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